Go-Op is a early stage company headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA attempting to develop a person-2-person (a.k.a peer-to-peer) car sharing service. Go-Op was founded in 2010 by Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....

 faculty member Robert Hampshire and by Craig Gaites and Jay Sizemore, students at Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business

Tepper School of Business

The Tepper School of Business is a private business school located on Carnegie Mellon University’s campus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.The school consistently ranks highly among the top business schools in the U.S., as well as in a wide range of specializations, such as finance,...

 . Go-Op's service is currently in private Beta testing.

Prior to its founding, the business plan

Business plan

A business plan is a formal statement of a set of business goals, the reasons why they are believed attainable, and the plan for reaching those goals. It may also contain background information about the organization or team attempting to reach those goals....

 for Go-Op won the Cleantech category at the McGinnis Venture Competition.